Author: mrsmeganpete
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George Town, Taiping and Ipoh: Overlanding Northern Malaysia
From George Town’s incredible food scene to Taiping’s unexpected charms and Ipoh’s historic streets and cave temples, we explore northern Malaysia by campervan, with a few vanlife challenges along the way.
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A Day in Taman Negara: Into the Malaysian Rainforest
From climbing through tropical rainforest to visiting a Bateq Orang Asli community and getting thoroughly soaked on the Tembeling River, we spent a memorable day exploring Malaysia’s Taman Negara National Park.
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Our Malaysian Overlanding Adventure Begins: Melaka to the East Coast
After a month waiting for our campervan in Kuala Lumpur, we finally hit the road. From historic Melaka to Tanjung Piai and Malaysia’s east coast, our first two weeks of overlanding brought beaches, tropical storms, new friendships and the freedom we’d been waiting for.
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One Week Became a Month: Falling in Love with Kuala Lumpur
We expected to spend a week in Kuala Lumpur while we waited for our campervan. Instead, one week became a month, giving us time to experience Malaysia’s capital at a completely different pace.
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Vanlife in the Tropics: How We Keep Cool Without Built-In Air Conditioning
Living in a campervan through Southeast Asia taught us plenty about managing heat and humidity. From choosing the right park-up to airflow, frozen facecloths and changing how we spend our days, here’s how we keep ourselves and It Zwibble reasonably comfortable without built-in air conditioning.
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India’s Golden Triangle: Seven Days in Delhi, Agra and Jaipur
India’s Golden Triangle was our introduction to the country: Delhi, Agra and Jaipur, three very different cities packed with history, colour and some of India’s most famous sights. We’ve finally pulled together our journey through all three, including what we loved, what surprised us, how we travelled between them and the practical information we wish…
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Four Reasons We Think Chennai Is Worth Your Time
Chennai probably isn’t on many people’s list of must-visit destinations in India. It doesn’t have the instantly recognisable landmarks of Delhi, the palaces of Jaipur or the backwaters of Kerala. For many travellers, it’s simply somewhere they fly into before heading somewhere else. To be honest, that was almost us too. We only ended up…
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A Good True Thai by Sunisa Manning
Reading *A Good True Thai* while driving Thailand’s rain-soaked Mae Hong Son Loop challenged my assumptions about the country’s past, revealing a turbulent political history I knew surprisingly little about.
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The Latehomecomer by Kao Kalia Yang
Reading The Latehomecomer while driving through the mountains of Laos brought the Hmong experience of war, displacement and migration vividly to life. But it was Kao Kalia Yang’s tender relationship with her grandmother that touched me most.
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A Cat, a Man, and Two Women by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki
Written in the 1930s but surprisingly timeless, A Cat, a Man, and Two Women explores jealousy, heartbreak and messy relationships, all centred around one perfectly indifferent cat. And, naturally, Lily had me thinking about our own Caesar waiting at home.